Medical Laboratory Scientists develop, perform and supervise laboratory testing that is used to diagnose and treat disease and to provide vital data for research studies. After graduation, many medical laboratory scientists work in hospital or physicians' office laboratories conducting a wide range of laboratory measurements—from simple blood tests to complex analyses for cancer, AIDS, viruses, bone marrow abnormalities, therapeutic drug monitoring, infectious disease and molecular diagnoses. Graduates are also prepared for careers that research and develop products used to prevent and treat human disease. They also work in academic settings with medical scientists performing experiments as part of research studies, or in industrial laboratories producing vaccines and other drugs. Graduates are eligible to apply for New York State licensure as a Clinical Laboratory Technologist and to sit for the national certifying examination given by the American Society for Clinical Pathology.

Note that the first 60 credits of the degree must be completed at another college.